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Getting back on the horse…..

After a couple of weeks off recovering from an operation (number 2 for me this year), it is off to the Lake District this weekend towards Chapel Stile. Any ideas for an “ease back into walking” route in that neck of the woods? I know Elterwater probably has one or two, not sure I’d be

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The Pony Path up Cader Idris

21.6.12Walking with; Al Cader Idris is reputed to be the second most popular mountain in Wales and at 893m it is a decent hike and one of the top twenty Welsh peaks heightwise. The name means “The Chair of Idris” and whilst there is some debate as to whom exactly Idris is, the accepted wisdom is that

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A Wasdale Weekender

18/19.6.12Walking with; Greg Working on Saturdays and Sundays mean my weekends are now Mondays and Tuesdays and with an operation looming at the tail end of next week I was determined to make the most of my last week of freedom and full health. I’d decided to try a wild camp on the Monday night

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A stroll on the Middlewood Way

12.6.12Walking with; Nobody A good walk doesn’t ALWAYS have to involve ascending something big, rocky and sticking out of the ground! A gentle ramble through the Cheshire countryside along an old railway line and, sticking to the theme of genteel transportation, back along the Macclesfield Canal can be just what the body needs on a

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Kinder Scout and Redbrook followed by Castleton Garland Day

29.5.12Walking with; Nobody Ewan MacColl’s Manchester Rambler claimed to have “sunbathed on Kinder and been burned to a cinder”, but given that my last two trips up there had involved zero visibility and blizzard like conditions I had my doubts. None-the-less I can now confirm that it is eminently possible to be fried on and

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Pendle Hill from Downham

21.05.12Walking with; Nobody Pendle, old Pendle, thou standest alone.Twixt Burnley and Clitheroe, Whalley and Colne,Where Hodder and Ribble’s fair waters do meetWith Barley and Downham content at thy feet Pendle Hill truly does stand alone, an imposing monolith towering over the impossibly picturesque village of Downham. For all the associations with witches and the supernatural

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Pendle Hill from Downham

21.05.12Walking with; Nobody Pendle, old Pendle, thou standest alone.Twixt Burnley and Clitheroe, Whalley and Colne,Where Hodder and Ribble’s fair waters do meetWith Barley and Downham content at thy feet Pendle Hill truly does stand alone, an imposing monolith towering over the impossibly picturesque village of Downham. For all the associations with witches and the supernatural

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The Old Man of Coniston

14.5.12 Walking with; Nobody I think it is the name that has always made me yearn to climb the “Old Man”, it has a benign sounding feel at odds to the exposure to the elements that summiting it can chuck at you. The peak itself is at 803 metres which means it just squeezes into

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Malham Tarn

7.5.12Walking with; Ruthy Malham is a tiny hamlet at the Southern end of the Yorkshire Dales, but it has a big reputation and attracts a lot of visitors. There  has been a settlement on the site for over one thousand years and it is named in the Domesday Book as Malgun. It’s main claim to

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